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Jan 2022
8:09am, 28 Jan 2022
2,592 posts
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Grast_girl
Indoor wellies, LOL.
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Jan 2022
8:42am, 28 Jan 2022
36,694 posts
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halfpint
I also did the toy in mouth trick. Ernie still likes to have something in his mouth when he’s excited. He’s 5.
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Jan 2022
11:13am, 28 Jan 2022
5,666 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Ollie is 12 - we got him as a rescue when he was 5. Whenever the door bell goes, or we suggest walk or garden, the first thing he does is find a toy to carry round 
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Jan 2022
11:48am, 28 Jan 2022
10,729 posts
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Mazlin
Our current trainer suggests that instead of training ‘leave it’ you teach them that UNLESS you tell the dog they can have it, they don’t touch anything (she says it’s so when she’s chopping stuff in the kitchen and something falls on the floor they don’t all dive for it). As with most things with Rory, it is a work in progress.
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Jan 2022
8:34pm, 28 Jan 2022
2,452 posts
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PenW
Thanks for the info on the AHC Alice. Very helpful!
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Jan 2022
8:37pm, 28 Jan 2022
1,751 posts
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RooA
That's what I mean by an "automatic leave it" Mazlin. It's not easy done!
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Jan 2022
10:00pm, 28 Jan 2022
9,242 posts
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BaronessBL
Wanda is fine on the automatic leave it if I am cutting up food and something falls on the floor in the kitchen - she will wait for the signal that she can have it or not. But with a large dollop of cat poo out on a walk she very much needs a firm 'leave it' command and even then it may be ignored. Muzzling her has resolved this to a certain extent.
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Jan 2022
10:44pm, 28 Jan 2022
19,375 posts
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Sharkie
Isn't there a thing that a command needs to be taught/implemented in all sorts of different places? Automatic leave on the kitchen floor is very different from out in a field!
TBH it seems too limiting and anti natural dog for the poor creature to never be able to do anything without being told to!
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Jan 2022
10:45pm, 28 Jan 2022
19,376 posts
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Sharkie
Hope that didn't come across wrong!
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Jan 2022
10:58pm, 28 Jan 2022
1,752 posts
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RooA
I'd rather have a dog that hesitates before eating a poisoned hot dog or a cattle bolus or whatever that stuff is that washes up on beaches any one of a hundred million things that dogs seem to want to eat that will either make them ill or kill them.
Neither of mine have an automatic leave it, especially not in the wild. I wish they did. It would make giving them the exercise they need much easier and less worrying.
Plenty of natural dog behaviours get ironed out of them by training for their sake and ours. Why not scavenging?
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